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NT NRA a i 6- PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, February 3, 1998 "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice " A SU A lle in i Ri Cl E30 Gu Ss we 188 MARY STREET - PORT PERRY. ONT. - LOL 1B7 PHONE (905) 985-7383 FAX (905) 985-3708 The Port Perry Star is authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, for cash payment of postage. Second Class Mail Registration 0265 Subscription Rates: 1 Year - $32.10 6 Months - $17.65 Foreign - $90.95 Includes $2.10 GST Includes $1.15 GST Includes $5.95 GST Editorial Comment Time to ban fishing on 7A Should fishing be banned on the cause- way east of Port Perry? Yes. Who should impose the ban? The appropriate provincial ministries. Each and every year, without fail, we deal with this issue. Most often it's brought up by an irate resident; either it's someone who's driven into town from the east and been appalled by the state of the causeway, or an Island resident whose beachfront has been cluttered by plastic bags, bait contain- ers, food packaging, and all manner of other rubbish. Add to that the safety issue -- Sunday afternoons the causeway is alive with people who park illegally and dodge across the roadway and along the shoulders -- and you've got a compelling argument for ban- ning the practice. It would be no different from banning fishing from bridges, a common practice. The province is in gharge of the highway, and the fishery. Ministry of Natural Resources officers and OPP on patrol could enforce the ban. As for the argument over a potential loss of revenue for businesses here, you have to wonder if these people really are big spenders. And it's not as if there aren't other areas to fish with worms and bobbers. The pier at the foot of Queen St. is popular, and there are spots along the canals east of the causeway where it would be a lot safer for people to fish. If only for the safety reasons alone, we should close the causeway to fishermen. Member of the BUSINESS OFFICE Canadian & Ontario Newspaper Assoc. Office Mgr. .......cocvvurinnsrnnns Gayle Stapley J CN A Published every Tuesday by the Accounting.......Judy Ashby, Janet Rankin Port Perry Star Co. Lid. - Retail Sales...... Kathy Dudley, 188 Mary Street - Port Perry, Ont. EDITORIAL: Heather Callan Publisher..........c...... J. Peter Hvidsten ADVERTISING General Manager ....Don Macleod PRODUCTION Advertising Mgr. .......... Don MacLeod Managing Editor..... Jeff Mitchell Annabell Harrison, Trudy Empringham, gales: Deb McEachern, Barb Hillier, News Reporters .....Chris Hall, Rhonda Mulcahy, Pam Hickey, Ginni Todd, Cindy Jobin, Gail Morse, Freelance - Heather McCrae, John B, McClelland Robert Taylor, Richard Drew Deborah Tiffin -- ON OUT THERE! 2.) J \ ~9 | GUESS IT'S TIME FOR ME TO SEE WHAT'S GOING \ IT LIKE? TAX INCREASE ON THE HAY | | U TT WELL? WHAT'S Th hal" TORT HE RRY "AR J et To the Editor: lle With the recent deaths of snowmobilers because of open water and thin ice and the Ice Palace not opening due to poor conditions, [ think a bit of common sense should have been used by Mr. Lishman and the township. Still after all this Bill Lishman, with poor weather and ice conditions, erected 40 tons of : ice at the end of the dock. > I saw the Icehenge finished with people walking through it and I too thought it mar- velous; but I hoped that the township and Mr. Week Lishman have good insurance coverage. On Saturday morning at approximately lcehenge' was poorly timed 9:30 a.m. I saw people in the Icehenge and nobody had a cutter at 11 a.m. I drove by and saw water on the ice surface; at 2:30 to 3 p.m. I came back and was there when it collapsed. If a hole was cut it 'may have started some- thing, but I think it would have happened anyway. It was just lucky that nobody was hurt, but there is still time for a snowmobiler to run into a chunk of ice covered with snow. Don't fly away home yet, Bill. Clean up the Mess. Jim Griffin Port Perry £0 -- Flight Lieut. James Kerr, RCAF was in town during the weekend. He was a guest speaker at the Port Perry Lions Club. While shoeing a horse, Mr. Cyrus Switzer was knocked down and trampled, resulting in a Remember When? ia oh broken leg and dislocated shoulder. 45 YEARS AGO January 29, 1953 Jessie McArthur of Blackstock was one of six girls across the Dominion of Canada to attend the Coronation celebrations in England in June. A Port Perry resident, Mrs. Dehl Bentley became the first woman in Ontario, possibly in the province to be chosen for jury duty. 40 YEARS AGO January 30, 1958 Mr. Ray Cook received burns to his face and nostrils while working on a discarded refrigerator. The accident happened at the J.J. Gibson Poultry Plant when the ammonia gas in the unit exploded. Mr. Lloyd Fawns reported finding a Canadian FEBRUARY 1978 - A terrified motorist trapped in his car on the Weather Balloon behind his barn. It was about Oshawa Rd. (now Simcoe St.) south of Port Perry waits to be five feet high with a radio device attached, and rescued. The worst winter storm this century stranded more than a parachute to let it down slowly when the 400 cars and was blamed for the death of at least one person. balloon comes back to earth. 30 YEARS AGO February 1, 1968 Anna Forder and Richard Stevens, smartly dressed in their Hudson Bay coats and fur hats left for Montreal to join the Olympic team and then fly to France to compete in the Winter Olympics in Grenoble. A well-known resident of Reach Township, Mr. Grant Christie has been awarded a Centennial Medal in recognition of his valuable service to the nation. 20 YEARS AGO February 1, 1978 One person died and more than 20 were Injured when the worst winter storm in the history of the area struck. More than 400 cars were abandoned along the Oshawa Rd., and drivers were rescued by snowmobilers. 10 YEARS AGO February 2, 1988 Cpt. Steve Mcintyre of Prince Albert, was one of four Canadian Armed Forces officers killed when the helicopter he was in crashed near Timmins. For the second time in 11 years, Snowarama had to be called off due to lack of snow. Port Perry Fair Board paid tribute to Fred Christie for his half century of service to the agricultural organization.